Small stone power issue

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Paul_5
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I’m currently struggling with the small stone layout from tagboardeffects.blogspot. I’m not getting any power to the ICs, but my build keeps frying the BC337 transistor on the power supply end of the circuit. Has anyone experienced this problem and has a solution?
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There could be a short circuit between the traces.
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Thanks for that, turns out that there was indeed a tiny, tiny solder bridge, that old chestnut.

Everything is sweeping along like 1978 again now thanks.
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